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Brandman University, CBE pioneer, offers advice on program development | Education Dive - 0 views

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CBE Faculty_Roles

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  • volving the role of faculty — Brandman has traditional faculty who build the curriculum as well as tutorial faculty who teach, another group who grades, and another, non-faculty, group responsible for monitoring student activity and engagement.
  • wlampner on 03 Mar 16
     
     evolving the role of faculty - Brandman has traditional faculty who build the curriculum as well as tutorial faculty who teach, another group who grades, and another, non-faculty, group responsible for monitoring student activity and engagement.
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Pedagogical Repository - 1 views

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faculty_training

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  • wlampner on 06 Jul 16
     
    The University of Central Florida's (UCF) Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) offers the Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR) as a public resource for faculty and instructional designers interested in online and blended teaching strategies. Each entry describes a strategy drawn from the pedagogical practice of online/blended teaching faculty, depicts this strategy with artifacts from actual courses, and is aligned with findings from research or professional practice literature. From Wendy - we may want to encourage our faculty to use this, but this also provides an opportunity for them to contribute their own practices.
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About | Affordable Learning Exchange (OSU) - 0 views

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#OER

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  • wlampner on 17 Feb 17
     
    "The Affordable Learning Exchange was created to help instructors take ownership of their courses and content. We are here to help navigate the waters of affordable resources and find creative solutions that promote students savings. This includes re-imagining the textbook, encouraging faculty innovation, and empowering our faculty through grants and training opportunities to adopt, adapt, create and share open educational resources"
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Thinking Small About Online Learning | Technology and Learning - 0 views

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online business_model

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  • Understanding the changing dynamics of the big players in online learning is important - but I fear that these numbers may dissuade some institutions from exploring distance education
  • An alternative way to think about online learning is not about scale - or even really about revenue generation - but about specialization.
  • Online programs can be a vehicle to highlight differentiation. What school, department, program, or area of research does your school do better than anybody else? What degree programs are you most proud? What areas of teaching and knowledge creation have you build a critical mass of faculty?
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  • The economics of online education mean that it is possible to build a very small program that is financially sustainable.  If the focus is institutional differentiation and program quality - economic sustainability should be enough
  • Online teaching is the world’s greatest faculty development program
  • The instructional designers that you will bring to campus to build a quality online program will end up working on residential courses.
  • faculty teaching online in a small program are the same faculty teaching on-ground - and they bring all their new course design and active learning skills developed in their online teaching to the face-to-face classroom
  • The real online learning story is the extent that distance education has been a catalyst to improve all the teaching and learning that happens on campus.
wlampner

An EdTech Thought Experiment | Technology and Learning @insidehighered - 0 views

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edtech organizational_structure

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  • wlampner on 19 Sep 14
     
    "The best way to understand learning tech people is to do a little thought experiment.   Pretend that through some Freaky Friday magic, (think Lindsay Lohan circa 2003), you wake up as a member of your campus IT organization.  (I'm assuming that you are a faculty member or future faculty member of some sort).  Everyone around you is talking about deliverables, assumptions, critical paths, constraints, dependencies and milestones.  There is a hierarchy. Demands are coming at you from all directions.  Budgets are tight and getting tighter. Those around you in IT are talented, dedicated, and often brilliant.  They are also constrained by the need to provide a 24/7/365 rock-solid infrastructure, and to so with budgets that have not grown to meet all the new demands."
Steve Kaufman

Few students or faculty like gen ed. Harvard and Duke are trying to change that. - 0 views

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elearning education

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  • Steve Kaufman on 15 Mar 16
     
    Harvard Universityand Duke University have revamped their general education models to make courses more interesting and meaningful to students and faculty, Colleen Flaherty reports for Inside Higher Ed. At both universities, leaders are concerned that students do not understand the point of general education, a problem also seen at other institutions nationwide.
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Tips for college leaders to make online programs work | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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elearning TalkingPoints

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  • “Why are we doing e-learning?”  Is it to increase tuition revenue?  Decrease costs? Create greater access? Allow greater flexibility for our students? Experiment with new pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning, so as to better educate a different generation of students? All of the above?
  • ultimately the senior no-wake proponents on campus will delay and/or sabotage any meaningful e-learning strategy.
  • all must understand the risks of NOT advancing one.
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  • key to succeeding is to incentivize faculty and senior staff.
  • sharing of tuition revenue generated from online courses and/or financial support for scholarly activities
  • same individuals must be engaged in defining and ensuring the highest level of quality of the online student experience
  • houghtful use of both internal and external resources, including independent marketing research
  • student-faculty engagement
  • measurable retention strategy
  • baseline for retention must be established
  • retention “dashboard” created to enable the provost to monitor all online programs
  • course development standards, teaching expectations, proper advisement and support services
  • careful use of third-party vendors and consultants to properly assess your institution’s market niche is typically a good expense.
  • more personalized, technologically advanced and affordable online degree program.
wlampner

The Making of a Teaching Evangelist - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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problem_based_learning active_learning lecture

shared by wlampner on 20 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • Mr. Mazur realized what he had really been teaching them: to memorize formulas.
  • Joy is not a word that often describes the lecture.
  • One humanities professor wrote last year that lectures work because they demand that students pay close attention, connect ideas, and understand how to build an argument.
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  • Mr. Mazur wondered whether lecturing was an ethical teaching choice.
  • The lecture creates the perfect illusion
  • Students learn when they think about what they’re hearing and organize it into salient points. "This places the responsibility for learning on the student,
  • modern zeitgeist places the responsibility on the instructor.
  • Lecturing, he says, serves another important purpose. It reaffirms the importance of expertise and allows students to see how an expert role-models the process of working through a problem.
  • Learning is not a spectator sport,"
  • Lectures are inexpensive for institutions, allowing hundreds of students to be assigned to one faculty member.
  • Mr. Mazur often likes to cite education research suggesting that students overestimate how much they learn from a smoothly delivered lecture.
  • a lecture is only as passive as the listener
  • His syllabus dedicates two paragraphs to the virtues of failure
  • Students post comments on the reading and respond to one another’s annotations
  • comments drive the next class.
  • o answer each problem, students do four things: articulate the problem in their own words, devise a plan to answer it, execute it, and evaluate how well it worked.
  • omplete the problem sets alone before class and work in teams during it to correct errors
  • not graded on how correct their answers are but on their effort and their accuracy in judging how well they understood the problem.
  • udents do complete five hourlong "Readiness Assurance Activities" during the semester. In the first half-hour they solve the problems alone; they can consult the internet but not one another. In the second, they go over the problems again, this time with their teams. Their scores reflect individual mastery and collective contribution.
  • Project-based learning is the center of the new course. Students work in teams. Many projects have low-stakes competitions attached to them, like constructing the most secure safe by using magnets as locks. Other projects have an explicit social benefit, like building musical instruments for an orchestra for poor children in Venezuela.
  • Mr. Mazur has moved himself far offstage; he missed about 40 percent of the meetings this past semester. Class just rolls on without him.
  • Peers, Mr. Mazur says, are a far greater source of motivation than a professor.
  • Students read material before class on an online platform
  • They should see failures, he writes, as "learning opportunities, not negatives, as steppingstones to success."
  • Repeated failure, as he has learned, is necessary for success.
wlampner

What Browser? - Google - 1 views

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browser support technology_support

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  • wlampner on 15 Sep 15
     
    helpful page for students & faculty to understand bowsers and verify theirs is current
Patrick Tabatcher

Find Images for Blogs & Social Media with Embed | Getty Images - 1 views

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stock-photos stock_photography stockphotos

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  • Patrick Tabatcher on 18 Mar 14
     
    Getty is making many of their images free to embed on a site or blog as long as it is for non-commercial use. Could be good for the DDS blog or for faculty courses. 
wlampner

Innovative Pedagogical Approaches for Higher Education - 0 views

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education contest elearning blended innovation

shared by wlampner on 05 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • REIMAGINE EDUCATION The global awards for innovative higher education pedagogies enhancing learning and employability
  • Despite years of discussion about the need to reform higher education most programs, whether academic or private enterprise, still rely on traditional pedagogical approaches that center on "teaching" (not learning) and often remain isolated from the demands of employers.
  • The Wharton-QS Stars Awards 2014: Reimagine Education took place on December 9th in Philadelphia.
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  • global competition received submissions from 427 universities and enterprises from 43 countries with 21 awards judged by a panel of 25 international experts – a 'who’s who' of higher education.
  • wlampner on 05 Mar 15
     
    Oscars of innovation in higher education. Maybe some ideas here that could inspire our faculty to think outside the box?
Patrick Tabatcher

Mic Technique - YouTube - 1 views

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podcasting audio screencasting screencasting-tools microphones

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  • Patrick Tabatcher on 04 Dec 14
     
    Good information on how to get good sound when recording audio. This is something we should share with, or teach to, faculty who are recording audio for their Storyline/Narrated PPTs
Patrick Tabatcher

Twitter's missing manual / fuzzy notepad - 1 views

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twitter social_media socialmedia

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  • Patrick Tabatcher on 03 Mar 16
     
    Could be of use for faculty or for your students.
wlampner

Trump administration official describes plan to 'rethink' higher education through upco... - 0 views

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online CBE federal_rules

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  • epartment wants to drop a standardized definition for academic course work, known as the credit hour, that the Obama administration rewrote in 2010 to curb credit inflation
  • re-examination of requirements for online education
  • faculty interaction and state authorization rules
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  • evaluating rules for competency-based education and the outsourcing of academic programs to nonaccredited providers
  • ccreditors have clamored for the department to get rid of the credit-hour definition, complaining it is difficult for them to track. Officials from some colleges, particularly those offering competency-based programs, have argued that the standard makes it difficult to comply with federal aid requirements.
  • The credit hour probably interferes with innovation almost more than anything
  • biggest providers of nontraditional education today -- online colleges -- have far more data on faculty instruction and student engagement than any other type of institution. And accreditors, she said, would come up with new ways to evaluate academic workloads based on that data.
  • department will propose that negotiators discuss federal rules for the outsourcing of portions of academic programs to nonaccredited or noncollege providers
  • Currently, no more than half of a program can be administered by an outside entity, such as an online program management (OPM) company
  • uild on lessons being learned from an Obama-era experiment to allow such partnerships to receive federal aid, dubbed the EQUIP program
  • e department wants to put more of an onus on colleges to justify not taking transfer credit,
wlampner

ANU Online Coffee Courses - 0 views

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workshop faculty_training

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  • wlampner on 08 Feb 19
     
    "Coffee courses are an easy way to learn new ideas for using technology in your teaching. Each coffee course will cover a new topic in education technology, teaching online, digital tools, pedagogy, or trends in technology. It is equivalent to a one- or two-hour face-to-face training session, but is done at your own pace from your own desk. Courses are offered regularly through the blog, and take place over one week. Each day while the course runs, a short activity or video will be posted to the blog for you to do. It should take about 15 - 20 minutes, just enough time to enjoy a cup of coffee (or tea, or whatever you prefer). For more information, please see this post about coffee courses. You can do any course at any time and all are welcome to participate. If you would like recognition on your employment record for completing the course, you can register for the session on HORUS prior to the course starting (available for ANU staff only)." From Wendy: I love the blog idea! Participants from their University can review each course and post a substantive comment to the blog in order to get the certificate. We could do this with workshop. It would help ensure faculty are really learning, since their posts would be public. Thoughts? Also note that all of their content is posted with a CC-BY license in case there's something we can use. It's also a model we can follow?
wlampner

Microsoft Word - Neuromyths Betts et. al FINAL 9.29.19 - 0 views

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metacognition

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  • wlampner on 12 Feb 20
     
    Includes a couple self-assessments that faculty could take to make sure they have a good understanding of cognition.
wlampner

How to Improve Public Online Education: Report Offers a Model - Government - The Chroni... - 0 views

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online administration models

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  • Public colleges and universities, which educate the bulk of all American college students, have been slower than their counterparts in the for-profit sector to embrace the potential of online learning to offer pathways to degrees.
  • continuum of organizational levels
  • low end of the spectrum, course availability, pricing, transferability of credit, and other issues are all determined at the institutional level, by colleges, departments, or individual professors, resulting in a patchwork collection of online courses that's difficult for students to navigate.
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  • Step 2, institutions further collaborate through shared contracts on resources, like learning-management systems
  • The first step is for state institutions to collaborate to establish a searchable clearinghouse of online courses and degree
  • report identifies five cumulative steps that build toward State U Online and gives an example of a state or system at each step
  • Step 3, systems also provide shared student-support services, such as advising, that can be used by students at all institutions in the system,
  • Step 4, an entire state, or a system of public higher-education institutions within the state, achieves all the previous levels of collaboration and in addition makes it easy for students to transfer credit among institutions.
  • enroll in a program at their "home" institution, but can easily take classes at any institution within the consortium.
  • Step 5 carries that concept beyond state borders. Students can take courses at any institution in such a multistate consortium and not worry about whether their credits will transfer, because institutional agreements within the consortium make that automatic.
  • offers practical suggestions about concerns like building sustainable revenue streams that are less dependent on allocations from legislatures, and on providing incentives and support for faculty members to offer online courses.
Steve Kaufman

Small, Rural Colleges Grapple With Their Geography - 0 views

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education colleges campus size

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  • Steve Kaufman on 13 Jun 16
     
    Kayaks and gorgeous views. A cellphone tower. A Starbucks not so far away. When recruiting students and faculty members, colleges in remote locations count unusual assets as part of their appeal.
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